This site is
dedicated to the spirit of the American traveler. Throughout modern history,
Americans have traveled abroad more than any citizens of any other country
in the world. Unfortunately, the reason some of our countrymen's travel
abroad was out of desperation and for the safety of their own lives, not
as tourists. Our generation seems to forget what was accomplished before
we were born.

My grandfather
was yanked from a cotton field and shipped overseas to the Philippines
at the age of eighteen. Before his twentieth birthday, he lost many friends
and brothers at Normandy. After cheating his own death in WWII, he witnessed
as his friends and family lost their sons die in Korea and in Vietnam
- all for your right to remain free.

These are the
people you owe your freedom to, and these are the people who sacrificed
themselves for you and your family. "The greatest generation"
as they are appropriately named. When I go abroad, which is quite often,
I don't thank my banker or my situation which allows me to go - I thank
my grandfather for the freedom to do so.

Clayton L.
Wigley - 2000

Clayton
Wigley and family members pose in front of the Pacific Prowler, sponsored
by
Clayton at the 2005 Moonlight Foundation Air Show in New Braunsfels,
Texas